Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

Here's the 1957 Kossoff in a later stage with the pickup rings in the official Number of The Beast video.

He's still clearly using a SuperD in the neck in the NOTB era.

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Mandume said:
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So this is from 1980-1981, probably 1981. It looks like a PAF in the neck position (the picture is not detailed enough to look directily at the pole pieces, but they seem to reflect light a little bit differently, so I'm going to take a guess here and say that it's a PAF and not a Super Distortion in the neck, which would then indicate the possibilty of him recording NOTB with a PAF neck pickup in his Kossoff Strat).


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This is the tremolo system he used for a couple of months early during the World Slavery Tour, it's a Rockinger Tru Tune Tremolo.
Adrian Smith also had that tremolo system installed on his two Lado's (now refitted with Floyd Rose Bridges)
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Yup, and Adrian hated it. Black Lado was fitted with a gold Floyd during World Slavery tour. Silver Lado followed, but it's unclear when. Possibly before Somewhere On Tour.
 
matic22 said:
It seems like he was switching back and forth. Possibly putting SD in neck to get more output, like he does with JB's now.
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Yep, very much possible.
The picture posted above from Mandume definitely looks like a DiMarzio DP103 PAF.
So he might have experimented with it and later switched back to the SuperD.

Those were the analog days so he might just have adjusted whatever tube amp was available in the studio and/or live and adjusted the output the amp needed from the guitars neck pickup according to this. So if the amp did not have enough saturation or distortion on the neck, he would choose the SuperD.
 
matic22 said:
Why? One of them was always played and it was played nore than the green Jackson.
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It seemed to me that there was much more of the green Jackson in the last shows, but I could be wrong. Also, abandoning the sunburst seemed strange since he enjoyed it a lot and it looked like he preferred it over the other one. Could be something technical or just Adrian rotating axes without any particular reason.
 
mihai said:
It seemed to me that there was much more of the green Jackson in the last shows, but I could be wrong. Also, abandoning the sunburst seemed strange since he enjoyed it a lot and it looked like he preferred it over the other one. Could be something technical or just Adrian rotating axes without any particular reason.
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Or... The weight of it, which is apparently more than a Les Paul.

Green Jackson was always making a comeback, as I called it at the beginning of the tour, since Adrian loves single coils for some cleans, like Powerslave and Killers. Seventh Son with a Lado was just... Strange.
 
matic22 said:
Or... The weight of it, which is apparently more than a Les Paul.
Green Jackson was always making a comeback, as I called it at the beginning of the tour, since Adrian loves single coils for some cleans, like Powerslave and Killers. Seventh Son with a Lado was just... Strange.
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Yeah. Seventh Son song with Lado is kind of odd, but not that much for me because Adrian played CIPWM with Lado in '88. A really cool one.
 
matic22 said:
Yes, only on the solo of CIPWM. Everything else were the keyboards.
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I don't even think it's in the solo, I have some boots from that tour and if it's there, it's extremely subtle (unlike on the album). Either way, the Lazer is a cool guitar, wouldn't mind having one for myself!:cool:
 
sea.of.madness.1986 said:
A great photo from the Infinite Dreams book preview ! View attachment 43583
P.S: Anyone knows what happened to this two axes ?
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Since they are in the book, I'd assume they are in storage like the Lados were until not long ago.

All of the guitars in the book were likely in IM warehouse, apart from Adrian's Destroyer II, which was in Adrian's home studio.
 
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Here's a better version of the image @sea.of.madness.1986 posted. According to it, the Ibanez is completely stock (although I think the specs for the Destroyer II is Mahogany body with a maple cap rather than Alder), and he apparently used the Les Paul a lot on the Powerslave record.
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Edit: according to https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/DT400_(1981–1982), the DT-400 was produced with a Mahogany body and Maple top in 1981 and a Basswood body and maple top in 1982. I think Dave's model is a 81, because they got them when they toured Japan during the Killers album touring cycle.
 
Mandume said:
Here's a better version of the image @sea.of.madness.1986 posted. According to it, the Ibanez is completely stock (although I think the specs for the Destroyer II is Mahogany body with a maple cap rather than Alder), and he apparently used the Les Paul a lot on the Powerslave record.
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Edit: according to https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/DT400_(1981–1982), the DT-400 was produced with a Mahogany body and Maple top in 1981 and a Basswood body and maple top in 1982. I think Dave's model is a 81, because they got them when they toured Japan during the Killers album touring cycle.
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I'm almost certain that the title track of Powerslave is recorded with this Heritage LP. He even used it live on it during the early dates of the tour. Also, it sounds like LP.
 
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